Secret Acres
What I bought – 12 October 2011
But novelists write for countless reasons: for money, for fame, for reviewers, for parents, for friends, for loved ones; for vanity, for pride, for curiosity, for amusement: as skilled furniture makers enjoy making furniture, as drunkards like drinking, as judges like judging, as Sicilians like emptying a shotgun into an enemy’s back. I could fill a box with reasons, and they would all be true, though not true of all. Only one same reason is shared by all of us: we wish to create as real as, but other than the world that is. (John Fowles, from The French Lieutenant’s Woman)
A review a day: Curio Cabinet
I don’t review everything I read. Occasionally I’ll skip something that I just don’t like all that much, because I don’t feel inspired to write about it. That’s why you don’t often see me savaging something here, because it’s just too much of a pain in the butt to do so. I’ll do it, of course, especially if the book deserves it, but I don’t like to do it that often. But I also receive books for free in the mail, and I feel obligated to review them. So what happens when I get a book in the mail that I don’t like? Well, you get reviews like this one. I’ll try to be nice!
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A review a day: Monsters
After a few days of single-issue stuff, let’s hit the thick stuff, okay? Today: HERPES!!!!!! (Yes, really.)
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A review a day: PS Comics
Here’s another comic I received in the mail. I love getting comics in the mail. It’s a strange rush!
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